Machine for cutting and grating vegetables



W. MILD. Machine for Cutting and Grating Vegetables.

No. 226,096 Patented Mar. 30, 1880.

inventor.

NPETERS. PHOTD-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

NITED STATES WILLIAM MILD, OF HAMILTON, OHIO.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND GRATING VEGETABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,096, dated March30, 1880.

Application filed November 3, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MILD, of Hamilton, in the county of Butlerand State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMachines for Outtin g and Grating Vegetables, of which the followingis aspecification.

My present invention relates to certain improvements in a machine forcutting and grating vegetables for which Letters Patent No. 220,723 weregranted to me October 21, 1879; and it consists in providing on theperiphery of the disk carrying the cutters a flange or rim turnedinwardly and of suflicient width to form the hub or center for thegrater, and in making the grater in disk form, with a flange or rimturned on the periphery to fit over and bind on the flange of thecutter-disk.

This arrangement enables me to vary the rate of grating without changingthe speed of the machine by shift-ing the vegetable from the center tothe periphery of the disk, or vice versa.

Certain vegetables, to grate well, require a higher speed than others,and this, with my previous machine, could only be obtained by varyingthe speed of the machine, which, with power-machines, requires expensivegearing or cone-pulleys, all of which are avoided by the presentconstruction.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of mymachine, showing the grater in position on the cutter-disk. Fig. 2 is afront elevation thereof with the grater removed, exposing thecutter-disk and knives. Fig. 3 is a side or end elevation of themachine, showing a cabbage-corer attached to the driving-shaft. Fig.4isa perspective View of the cutter-disk. Fig. 5 shows thefurrowing-knife detached. Fig. 6 shows the cabbage-corer. Fig. 7 is asectional elevation of the cutter-disk, and Fig. 8 asectional elevationof the grater.

A is the stand or frame of the machine, which I make in ornamental styleof cast-iron.

On the upper surface of the frame I provide a long box, which is boredfor the reception of the driving-shaft b. Upon the back of the frame Icast a boss, which is bored for the reception of the stud 0, upon whichturns the spur-wheel E, giving motion to the spur-pinion b,driving-shaft b, and cuttendisk B. B is the cutter-disk, of cast-iron,keyed or otherwise secured to thedriving-shaft. G is a table secured tothe ends of the frame by gibs, and capable of being easily removed forchanging the machine. D is a guard of cast or sheet iron, secured to theupper side of the frame, to prevent particles of vegetables from flyingoff at a tangent. F is the furrowingknife, and h the slicing-knife. Whenthe machine is to be used for slicing vegetables, as cabbage, twoslicing-knives, as h, are used.

B is the grater, of disk form, perforated on the face and provided withan annular flange or rim to fit over and bind the rim of the cutter-diskB. G is the corer, for removing the centers of the cabbage.

An inclined shelf is provided in the lower part of the frame, upon whichthe cut or grated vegetables fall, and pass into any convenientreceptacle set below.

Although I show and describe a machine to be operated by hand, it isobvious that a pulley can be placed on the driving-shaft and the machinedriven by power.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The cutter-disk B,provided with an annular rim turned inwardly, in combination with theflanged grater B, driving-shaft b, and driving-gear E and b, for thepurpose and as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day ofSeptember, 1879.

WILLIAM MILD.

Witnesses:

J OHN H. HOFFMANN, E. O. MARTIN.

